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    Antimins (redirect from Antimension)
    The antimins (from the Greek Ἀντιμήνσιον, Antimension: "instead of the table"), is one of the most important furnishings of the altar in many Eastern...
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  • by a bishop of the same rite was required. In the Byzantine Rite, the antimension, blessed and signed by the bishop, serves a similar function. In contrast...
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    Liturgy must be served on an antimension even if the altar has been consecrated and contains relics. When not in use, the antimension is left in place in the...
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    Table, and the priest takes the diskos from him and places it on the Antimension. During the Anaphora, only the Lamb is consecrated.[citation needed]...
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    and the sacred vessels. In the orthodox churches it is covered by the antimension, which also contains the relics of saints. Since the 2nd century the...
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  • called the antimension signed by the bishop, which is the permission to the community to gather and to act as the Church. Without the antimension, the priest...
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    LaBoiteaux Drake (1962), Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania) Antimension Epitaphios (liturgical) Life of Jesus in the New Testament Seven Sorrows...
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    saints (traditionally, always those of a martyr) are also sewn into the antimension which is given to a priest by his bishop as a means of bestowing faculties...
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  • Divine Liturgy only with the blessing of a bishop. In Byzantine usage, an antimension signed by the bishop is kept on the altar partly as a reminder of whose...
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  • Christ at the Divine Liturgy. The Chrism used at Chrismation and the Antimension placed on the Holy Table are also said to be consecrated. Eastern Christians...
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    were attributed to him; Deesis of Saint Simeon and Saint Sava (1712); Antimension of Christ with the Apostles (1724); and two-sided woodcut representing...
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    and is presented to the priest by the bishop and (together with the antimension) and is the symbol of the priest's permission from the bishop to perform...
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    this chrism which has received the laying on of hands, together with an antimension is the manner in which a bishop bestows faculties upon a priest under...
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    the Monarch has jurisdiction over the Abbey. Thabilitho Altar Stone Antimension Habtamu Teshome (16 January 2023). "Liturgical Worship, Part Three: Unique...
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    purple) Look up parament in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Antependium Antimension Altar candle Chancel flowers  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...
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    that the visiting priest is a person of good character. In the East an antimension signed by the bishop is kept on the altar partly as a reminder of whose...
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    Christ at the Divine Liturgy. The Chrism used at Chrismation and the Antimension placed on the Holy Table are also said to be consecrated. Church buildings...
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  • Holy Qurbono in the Syro-Malankara Church. SB Press Trivandrum. Tabot Antimension Altar stone Corporal (liturgy) v t e Givergis Paniker Karichal, The Holy...
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    is deconsecrated as a holy space. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the antimension on the altar serves a similar function. It is a cloth icon of Christ's...
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    Byzantine art, with special types of cloth icon, the Epitaphios and the Antimension; Western equivalents in painting are called the Anointing of Christ....
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    piece of cloth called the eiliton. Folded within the eiliton is the antimension, which is a silken cloth imprinted with a depiction of the burial of...
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  • include: Altar cloth (sometimes called the "Fair Linen") Antependium Antimension Baptismal cloth Burse Cere cloth Chalice veil Corporal Credence cloth...
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    ecclesiastical accessories, such as silver banners, gospels (1776, 1860), an antimension (1840), two chalices (1862, 1890), menaia printed in Venice in 1680 and...
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  • Place also refers to the central portion of the Holy Table, where the antimension and Gospel Book are normally kept. The only other objects that are permitted...
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    Divine Liturgy (chancel with an altar table, a prothesis table, and an antimension). Łopatinski, N. (1 July 1892). "Posieszczenije Tieriespolskogo prichoda...
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  • church. The relics which will be placed in the Holy Table (altar) and the antimension are to be prepared and guarded on the previous day in some neighboring...
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    to a church. In 2006, Bishop John Pazak moved the tabernacle and the antimension from the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Markham to the Church of...
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    non-clergy, except for sacristans to whom special permission is given. Antimension Thabilitho Chapel of the Corporal at Orvieto Cathedral Citations  One...
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    priest lifts the chalice and makes the Sign of the Cross with it over the antimension as he says quietly, "Blessed is our God...". He then turns towards the...
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    objects that are permitted to occupy this place on the altar are the Antimension, chalice and discos (paten) for the celebration of the Eucharist or,...
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